Category: Binary Options

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December 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AMF warns against three unauthorized binary options trading websites

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published a list of new websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorized investment services provider could be clearly identified. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: www.capitaldeposit.net www.emfi-placesecurity.com www.xfr-financial.com A list of all unauthorized websites to offer trading of binary options is available in…

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December 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Binary Options broker Vogel Capital gets warning from Sweden's Finansinspektionen

The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority Finansinspektionen (FI) just informed that persons claiming to represent Vogel Capital are offering Swedish investors to trade with securities in terms of binary options. FI has investigated the matter and has not been able to determine that Vogel Capital is a going concern. Vogel Capital / Commercial Support LP is neither…

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November 30, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Canadian regulator warns against offshore CFDs and Binary Options broker uTrader

Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added to its Investment Caution List offshore CFDs and Binary Options broker uTrader, operating from en.utrader.com. uTrader claims to be an online Contracts For Difference (CFDs), Forex and options trading platform provider.  Day Dream Investments Ltd., which claims to be located in the Republic of the…

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Betex binary options platform
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Peer-to-peer Binary Options platform Betex launches ICO

LeapRate Exclusive... A new Binary Options peer-to-peer trading platform called Betex is planning to launch and - like many new companies which are basing their execution on blockchain technology - is looking to fund itself via an ICO. Betex aims to be a leading-edge platform for P2P financial derivatives trading. It enables users to place…

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TechFinancials sells its holding in MarketFinancials to Proverial Ltd
November 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials sells OptionFair binary options brand for $400K as it focuses on Blockchain and Crypto technologies

Binary options technology and brokerage company TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) is getting out of the broker side of the business. TechFinancials today announced that it has agreed to sell its CySEC licensed subsidiary B.O. TradeFinancials Limited which operates the OptionFair binary options brokerage brand, as well as another related subsidiary MarketFinancials Limited, to a Cyprus incorporated company called…

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November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options regulation in the UK to move to the FCA in 2018

Breaking Forex News... The UK financial regulator, the FCA, has announced that effective January 3, 2018, firms offering binary options in the UK will be regulated by the FCA, and will no longer be licensed by the Gambling Commission. The decision by the FCA ends a lengthy internal debate at the regulator, as well as…

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UN report says North Korea laundered $2 billion theft via Hong Kong firm
November 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Operators of binary options trading boiler room convicted and sentenced

Following an ASIC investigation, Jana Jaros and Jackson Laurence Malcolm Capper were convicted and sentenced for operating a financial services business without a licence and lodging false documents to ASIC containing false or misleading material. Each defendant pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates' Court. Ms Jaros was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, to be released…

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Good news for Bitcoin investors: Israel might cut tax on profit by half
October 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options ban legislation (finally) passes in Israel

After months of behind-the-scenes lobbying and resulting delays, Israel's Binary Options bill was passed in the country's Knesset parliament late Monday, in a (rare) unanimous 53-0 vote. The vote came in the opening day of the Knesset's winter session, after intense industry lobbying efforts were able to delay the Binary Options bill from being introduced…

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Cedex online blockchain diamond exchange
October 23, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials partners with Saar Levi in Blockchain based online diamond exchange CEDEX.com

Binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it is partnering with private banking expert Saar Levi to start a new venture called CEDEX.com. According to TechFinancials, CEDEX will operate a Blockchain based online exchange for diamonds, with a long-term vision to turn the traditional diamond industry into a financial tradable…

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